House Dems were looking to compromise with GOP leaders in order to avoid a total shutdown, but today, House Speaker John Boehner bucked claims that the parties had settled in the night, reports ABC.

This morning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reiterated that lawmakers had reached an agreement on the number of spending cuts.

“We’re continuing to work very very hard to avoid the terrible consequences that would come with a government shutdown,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “Democrats and Republicans have agreed upon a number on which to base our budget cuts – that number is $73 billion below the President’s budget proposal. Now we have to figure out how to get to that 73 number.”

Not so fast, Boehner countered a bit later this morning.

“There’s no agreement on numbers and nothing has been agreed to until everything has been agreed to,” Boehner said at a news conference.

Boehner, of course, has been willfully ignorant about the ins and outs of the budget process in the past, bragging about his ability to 'delegate.' And, as Tea Partiers rallied outside basically suggesting the government just defund everything, Barney Frank got in a zinger.

"It is possible to take him literally, and he says this will become the law of the land — you don't understand what land he is talking about," Frank countered in an interview on MSNBC. "As with Congresswoman [Michele] Bachmann [R-Minn.] and some others, we are talking about people who sometimes inherit — inhabit — 'cloud cuckoo land.' And in 'cloud cuckoo land,' yeah, that could be the case."

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By now you may have heard about how Google launched a new algorithm designed to combat fake news.

Then came the shocker: Google targeted AlterNet as fake news, as well as dozens of other progressive news sites. Almost overnight, we lost roughly 1.2 million readers.

A giant conglomerate with no journalists or editors is deciding what you should read, watch and hear. If not stopped, Google will become an ever-tightening “information noose” for independent media and alternative voices.